Jan wrote: >You talk about *4* fonts. In a usual system, you have about 400 and more at >hand. It's no fun to build the font metrics for that many fonts any time X is >started. That's why there is a disk cache which is updated only on font >installation.
My reply: I see your point about the cache, but you and I seem to differ as to where the font "installation" process begins and ends. As to System fonts, I say font installation ends before the system is booted, and as to Personal fonts, I say font installation for application Z ends before application Z is launched. I contend that font installation is merely a font-file location (or placement) process--putting the font files where the system or an application will find them. Such a placement process involves no cache (neither building a cache nor consulting a cache). _______________________________________________ Scribus mailing list Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Linux%27s-font-system-tf2749029.html#a7685836 Sent from the Scribus mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
